Combined halter and hitch ing-strap



(No Model.)

J A. GRANT.

COMBINED HALTER AND HITGHING STRAP.

Patented Oct. 4,1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcE.

JOHN A. GRANT, OF BOSTON, MASSAOHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To JAMES w. PAGE, OFBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINED HALTER AND HlTCHlNG-STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,137, dated October4,1887.

Application filed July 24, 1886. Serial No. 208,922. (No m0del.l

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. GRANT, of Bus ton, in the countyof Suffolkand State ofM-as saehusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Halters and Hitching-Straps, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specifitiOn.

This invention is an improved article of manufacture-viz., a combinedhalter, double hitching-strap,and continuouslead line or rein, allformed from four straps united by three rings and provided with twosnap-hooks, as shown and described. These straps are preferably leatheror webbing, but rope or other material may be employed.

The drawings represent the dilferent forms in which these parts arecombined and arranged to constitute the three different articlesspecified,Figure 1 showing them extended as a simple strap or lead-line;Fig. 2 representing the halter formed from the same parts, and Fig. 3illustrating the use of the device as a double hitching-strap.

A, B, G, and D are the four straps or sections of the article, Arepresenting the uppermost one, constituting the headstall of thehalter, Fig. 2-; B, the next in order, forming the nose-strap thereof;and O,the next, being the jawstrap of the halter, and preferably madedouble, as shown, for flexibility and strength. D is the lower endsection or tie-strap, under any of the conditions of use. The fourstraps AB C D are connected, end to end, in a con tinuous line,by thethree rings EF G, the ring E uniting A to B, the ring F uniting B to C,while the doubled strap (J is passed directly through the ringG toengage at its end the loop of a snap-hook, I, which cannotbe withdrawnthrough the ring G, secured on the inner end of strap D. Thus the fourstraps become four sections of one continuous line, as shown in Fig. 1,when it is desired to so use the article.

. At such times, to keep the snap-hook I in proper place, I engage itshook with a small ring or loop,J,scoured to one side of the strap D,nearits inner-end. This ring J, though very convenient, is supplementarymerely, and is not required for strength nor essential to connection ofthe four sections. It is not employed when the article is used as. ahalter or as a double hitching-strap, as in Figs. 2 and 8.

Two snap-hooksI-I and I, are essential to my completed article, the hookH being secured by its loop to the outer or free end of the strap A,while the end of the strap 0, after passing through the ring G, issecured by the loop of thesnap-hook I, said loop being too large to bedrawn through said ring, as already stated.

In forming a halter I engage the hook H in the ring F and the hook I inthe ring E, (see Fig.2) while for the double hitching-strap of Fig. 3the hook H enters the ring E and the hook I engages the ring of thebridle-bit. I sometimes substitute an equivalent strap and buckle inplace of the snap-hooks shown.

I am aware ofthe Patent No. 153,9ll,granted to P. Reed, August 11,1874,for fhalter, made up of eight straps, five rings, five snap'hooks, andtwo buckles, the cheek pieces and nose band being detached wholly fromthe other parts to make of the remaining parts a hitchat each end and aseries of loops secured to it at intervals, with which either hook mightengage. The device is not convertible into any other article. I disclaimthe things shown in both these patents as foreign to my invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. The eombination,in a halter-,of the straps AB O D, rings E F G, and snap hooks H I, arranged as described and shown,whereby without dismemberment the article is convertible into a doublehitchingstrap or coir tinuous lead-line, substantially asset forth.

2. The lead -line described, formed of the sections A B G D and providedwith the rings E F G, snap-hooks H I, and supplementary ring J,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 14th day of July, A. D.1886.

, JOHN A. GRANT.

Witnesses:

A. H. SPENCER, G. G. KnYEs.

